Pop-up reminders in electronic medical records help eliminate unnecessary blood transfusions

(PhysOrg.com) -- In one of the first studies to examine how electronic reminders unrelated to medication safety could improve clinical care, researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital have found that pop-up messages built into electronic medical records systems can prevent physicians from ordering unnecessary treatment. The automated reminders saved Packard Children’s 460 unnecessary red blood cell transfusions and $165,000 in one year, while patients who needed transfusions still received them.

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